Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has [been] use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activated carbon has been used in groundwater remediation to aid the overall process . |
| 2 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 3 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 4 | A different approach to estimating the distributive effects of public expenditure has been used by the Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) . |
| 5 | Where the court is satisfied that any improper solicitation has been used by or on behalf of a trustee in obtaining proxies or in procuring his appointment as trustee , it may order that no remuneration be allowed to the person by whom or on whose behalf the solicitation was exercised ( r 6.148(1) ) . |
| 6 | It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning . |
| 7 | Another , on their economic importance , shows how male fern has been used as a cure for worms or as a love philtre , how clubmosses provide homoeopathic treatments for everything from hiccups to pre-menstrual tension , and how the mosquito fern plays a vital role in rice production . |
| 8 | Finally , a pleasantly-grained veneer of dark ash has been used as a finish on the front and back of the headstock . |
| 9 | Ascorbic acid has been used in pharmacological doses for more than 20 years . |
| 10 | ( A similar argument has been used with regard to the Act of Union between Scotland and England in 1707 ) . |
| 11 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 12 | Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 13 | So real slate has been used for the roofs , York stone for the internal shopping court , and crafted plasterwork for the ceilings . |
| 14 | Give me a links course in Scotland or Lancashire , or one of the beautiful Surrey courses any day , where the natural terrain has been used to its best advantage ; such courses have the great benefit of maturity . |
| 15 | It is required to solve unc The square matrix has been used in Example 2.3.2.1 . |
| 16 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
| 17 | Studded rubber has been used on the stairs where the handrails are oak . |
| 18 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 19 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 20 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Here , the same powder-blue print has been used for the wallpaper , valance and chaircovering , while cream drapes combine to give an almost French flavour . |
| 22 | The peg and string method of devising near biomorphic forms has been used by Naum Gabo and Armin Hofmann . |
| 23 | Customs officers say it 's the first time European green law has been used in Britain this way . |
| 24 | Such radio-carbon dating has been used on wood , charcoal , peat , organic mud and calcium carbonate in molluscs , foraminifera and bones . |
| 25 | Green verdite has been used below the dado rail and for the matching tops of the dressing table and washstand . |
| 26 | There has been a trend in recent years for manufacturers to shorten their channels in order to control more effectively the distribution of their products , particularly where expensive advertising has been used to pre-sell the goods to the consumer . |
| 27 | Pearloid sheet has been used for the scratchplate , again reminiscent of bygone days . |